Leonard Siwale
Avondale,Lusaka
Summary
I am a Supply Chain Management professional whose work experience is anchored on 4M’s of operations management. i.e. Manpower, Materials, Methods (Processes) and Machines management. My prowess is in among others, Production Materials planning, Demand & Supply planning, Procurement, Inventory management, warehousing/logistics/distribution, operations management, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) etc. I always operate within & develop work SOPs and duties are done as expected by properly planning them to prevent poor performance. I take pride in my honest/integrity and positive work attitude which I do not compromise. I have more than 12 years of work experience across different business disciplines. Positive work attitude, commitment and desire for results have always defined my work ethics.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Inventory & Dispatch Manager
Verino Agro Industries Limited
08.2025 - Current
- Logistics/distribution, Sales orders, Inventory management, Dispatch processes efficiency
- Supply Chain Operations cost Management (Inventory variances/ Warehouse shrinkage)
- Supply Chain Overheads Cost Management
Management Controller/Supply Chain Lead
Lactalis (Parmalat) Zambia Ltd
11.2024 - 08.2025
- Logistics/distribution, Sales/sales orders, Inventory management, Fleet processes efficiency
- Supply Chain Operations cost Management (Fleet/Fuel/ Inventory variances/ Warehouse shrinkage)
- Supply Chain Overheads Cost Management
- Supply Chain Profit and Loss
- Procurement process authentications for every purchase and cost posting
- Vendor Vetting and Authorisation
- Monthly operations cost Budgeting/forecasting and adherence tracking
- Managing an operational budget of ZMW4 000 000 which I maintained
Operations Manager (Kitwe Branch)
Lactalis (Parmalat) Zambia Ltd
07.2024 - 10.2024
- Logistics/distribution
- Sales/sales orders
- Inventory management
- Fleet management
- Staff management
- Operations cost management
Sales and Operations Lead (S&OP) –(SC Planning Manager)
Lactalis (Parmalat) Zambia Ltd
09.2023 - 06.2024
- Demand Supply Planning
- Depot replenishment planning
- Inventory control (Balancing supply & Demand)
- Sales and Operations Data Analytics
- Warehouse processes efficiency implementation
- Warehouse operations problem solving tools implementation
- Slow moving stock management
- SKU demand Vs Forecast Analysis
- SKU performance analysis Vs Plans
- Raw Materials needed for production interpretation from the annual and monthly sales forecasts
- Daily/Weekly Supply Reviews and constrained Demand-Supply Planning
- Raw Materials for Meeting Production Targets Analysis
Inventory Controller (Manager) – Ndola Plant
Zambian Breweries Ltd (AbInbev)
06.2021 - 09.2023
- Reporting of Supply Chain Losses and Root-Cause Analysis.
- Slow and Obsolete stock management, current & latest estimates tracking and reporting and gap closure.
- Confirming daily Warehouse capacity and advice the business of any risk (space utilization).
- Co-ordinating daily and monthly stock count activities.
- Beer shelf life management/control (Ensuring that the principle of FEFO (First Expired First Out) in stock management).
- Assessing of Warehouse Processes to identify improvements.
- Auditing of all Warehouse receipts, all inventory Transfers, Customer Crediting, etc.
- Reconciling and auditing all stock movements across all Warehouses of the business.
- Validating the FBR (Full Beer Returns) and BIT (Breakage in Transit).
- Reviewing of stock age, Out of Stock and Out of Range stocks.
- Auditing of all the gate controls for stock movement accuracy and compliance to procedures.
- Management of stock write-off risks.
- Controlling and tracking of all finished goods and raw materials of the business inclusive of all imported goods for the business (Finished goods and Raw Materials).
- Managed to help the business have visibility of on all it’s finished goods (Beer) import, unearthing 79 lost trucks tracing back to 3 years before I joined the company. Business recovered a lot of money as a result.
- Helped the business have control/visibility on it’s glass’ whereabout making it easy for the distribution team to plan collections accurately.
- Created an inventory report that ensured visibility and proper management of materials that the ERP system was not tracking (coal and chemicals used in cleaning production lines).
Planning Assistant – Lusaka Plant
Zambian Breweries Ltd (Ab_Inbev)
10.2020 - 05.2021
- Raw Material Purchase requisition
- Raw Materials Purchase Orders tracking – Giving visibility Materials in the pipeline
- Imported Beer daily reconciliations (Tracking)
- Daily Demand Supply tracking report updates
- Daily, Weekly glass (vulnerable company asset) in trade visibility reports
- Weekly stock capturing for demand forecasting
- Finished goods SOH BBDs compilation for PBI
- Inter-depo Raw material transfer planning
- Expected Imports Vs receipts weekly reports
- Successfully developed an Intercompany import tracking tool SAB Vs (Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, and Mozambique).
- Helped in highlighting intercompany SCOH/Risks.
- Developed a report (refreshable) that gave the company visibility of it’s vulnerable asset (returnable bottles).
Procurement/Analytics Officer
L&A Logistics Ltd (Subsidiary Vector Logistics)
12.2018 - 07.2020
- Sales/Procurement data Analytics
- Purchase Orders and Warehousing of FMCG.
- Chain stores’ GP Control – PnP, Shoprite, Choppies, Game, Jumbo and Spar – (Developed a tracker that gave visibility to the daily transactions of more than 2000 SKUs) between L&A Logistics and the Chain Stores.
- Listing of new items with Chain stores/Supermarkets
- Daily, Weekly, Monthly internal and Vendor reports compilations and performance analysis
- Receiving and uploading of stock
- Inventory/Stocks management/Control.
- Weekly and quarterly stock take.
- Short dated and expiry inventory control.
- Chain stores ROS and stock on hand (SOH) monitoring.
- Generating reports for delivery vehicles-GEOTAB.
- Losses management from returned stock from chain stores by creating a stock level monitoring tool that helped to regulate how much stock to invoice customers based on ROS/Demand/SOH/DOC and also product shelf live.
Materials Warehouse Supervisor
Aller Aqua Feed Zambia Ltd
07.2017 - 11.2018
- Raw Materials planning and Handling used in Fish Feed Production.
- Receiving and storing of all the Raw Materials required for feed production.
- Accurately booking of all stock items in the ERP system (Microsoft Dynamics – NAV)
- Daily and month end stock take and reconciliations.
- Daily inventory/Raw Material reports of (Deliveries/Goods Received, Raw Material Issues, Purchase Requisitions, Raw Material Production Requisitions.
- Reconciliation of inventory discrepancies.
- Manage inventory/Raw Material personnel by setting schedules, monitoring performance and assigning tasks and ensuring they were done accordingly.
- Raw Material Inventory Policy Tracking
- Issuing and In-taking of Raw materials to production per production plan.
- Handling of more than 1, 000 MT of Raw Materials per month used in Fish feed production with minimal losses to the business.
- Managed to bring stock variances under control through consistency and adherence to work SOPs.
- Successfully set up an effective warehousing processes from scratch.
Bakery Manager
Bean-Tree Investments Ltd (Bakery)
09.2016 - 03.2017
- Planning of bakery Raw Materials and Production.
- Managing the Distribution of Bakery Products.
- Daily/Monthly Stock Take and reports.
- Daily, weekly, and monthly reports (Purchases, stock stake, sales, banking, and wastage).
- Products' quality control.
- Bakery Food cost control (Bakery and Restaurant).
- Ensured all products were produced according to their respective recipes/formulae (BOMs).
- Ensured cleanliness and hygiene in the bakery premises.
- Maintained and controlled inventory of baked items and restaurant.
- Production wastage management thereby maintaining the business’ GP.
- Putting up a working bakery operations system for a new bakery.
Store Manager
Fortune Foods Group, Spur/Debonairs
04.2014 - 07.2016
- Responsible for all store Purchases - (POs).
- Control of Quality and quantity of all Purchases and Store products.
- Daily pre-trade checks and Ensured efficient and effective stock control for the store/restaurant.
- Conducting pre-trade meetings - (KAIZEN).
- Stock management - Planning, Organizing and Controlling through stock take and usage monitoring (BOMs).
- Daily, weekly, and monthly Food Cost Management – (Controlling of compliance to BOMs).
- Staff management.
- Motivating staff members to attain monthly sales targets through proper planning and organizing appropriate stock levels, incentives, minimizing wastages, maximizing product usage etc.
- Ensured adherence to opening and closing procedures (Store Checklist of equipment and Stock ensuring that everything needed to run a business day were in place and working condition).
Education
Master’s Degree - economics
Information and Communication University Zambia
01.2025
BSc - Production & Operations Management
Copperbelt University
01.2012
GCE Grade 7/9/12 Certificates - undefined
Butondo Primary & High School
01.2006
Skills
- Supply Chain working tools
- Material Requirement planning
- Production/operations Cost control
- Food cost management
- Supply Chain Analytics
- Cost Management
- Huge Data Analytics
- Excel analytics
- Diverse ERP systems experience
- Organizational SOPs observer
- Microsoft Office packages
- Monthly business Review analytics
- KPI problem Solving
- Purchasing
- Procurement
- Product Quality control
- Staff management
- Stock control
- Management
- Warehousing
- Logistics Management
- Business intelligence Reports
- Pivot tables
- Data visualizations
- Demand planning
- Supply planning
- Forecast
- Supply chain overheads management
- Operations Costs Management
- Distribution management of FMCGs
- Warehouse operations costs management
Personal Information
- Number of Children: 3
- Date of Birth: 06-April-1988
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Inventory & Dispatch Manager
Verino Agro Industries Limited
08.2025 - Current
Management Controller/Supply Chain Lead
Lactalis (Parmalat) Zambia Ltd
11.2024 - 08.2025
Operations Manager (Kitwe Branch)
Lactalis (Parmalat) Zambia Ltd
07.2024 - 10.2024
Sales and Operations Lead (S&OP) –(SC Planning Manager)
Lactalis (Parmalat) Zambia Ltd
09.2023 - 06.2024
Inventory Controller (Manager) – Ndola Plant
Zambian Breweries Ltd (AbInbev)
06.2021 - 09.2023
Planning Assistant – Lusaka Plant
Zambian Breweries Ltd (Ab_Inbev)
10.2020 - 05.2021
Procurement/Analytics Officer
L&A Logistics Ltd (Subsidiary Vector Logistics)
12.2018 - 07.2020
Materials Warehouse Supervisor
Aller Aqua Feed Zambia Ltd
07.2017 - 11.2018
Bakery Manager
Bean-Tree Investments Ltd (Bakery)
09.2016 - 03.2017
Store Manager
Fortune Foods Group, Spur/Debonairs
04.2014 - 07.2016
Master’s Degree - economics
Information and Communication University Zambia
BSc - Production & Operations Management
Copperbelt University
GCE Grade 7/9/12 Certificates - undefined
Butondo Primary & High School